FAQs

The Ballet Scout has opportunities for all ages and levels of dance. We offer information on dance auditions, training, and jobs from all over the world.

As per our Terms of Use, to register for an account you must be 13 years of age or older. If you are a minor, you may have a parent or guardian create an account for you and use the site on your behalf.

To create an account, click ‘Sign Up’ on the top-right of the navbar or navigate to https://www.balletscout.info/register/ and follow the instructions. Following successful registration, you will receive an account activation email at the email address you provided during registration. This email will be from contact@balletscout.info.

• Did you activate your account? Check your spam folder for an email from contact@balletscout.info
• Is your username and/or password entered correctly? Usernames are case sensitive. If you signed up as contact@, Contact@, will not work!
• Clear your browser cache and try again
• Restart your browser and try again

If these steps do not resolve the problem, please contact support

If you’ve forgotten your password, you can reset it here: https://www.balletscout.info/account/password_reset_request. Enter the email address associated with your account where prompted and follow the instructions. It may take a few minutes for the password reset email to send; additionally, check your spam folder!

To delete your account, please contact support.

To access your data, please contact support.

You can access all of the search pages here: https://balletscout.info/search/, or by clicking 'Search' on the navbar. When you first access a search page, all results will show up. Use the filters on the left-hand side to narrow the scope of your search.

• Make sure other fields are cleared before trying new filters. For example, a name search will stay until you delete it and re-search. You do not need to clear the entire search, you can just unselect certain fields.
• If you are using the location search, try expanding your radius.
• Try a different type of search, what you’re looking for may be categorized differently (I.e trainee & second company programs will be under “Post-high School”)

• Programs: Name, Location, Age
• Auditions: Name, Location, Radius (distance from location), Audition Type (in-person, virtual, recorded)
• Jobs: Name, Location, Filter by Height

For Programs and Jobs, you can ‘favorite’ results by clicking the Heart icon on a search result card. For auditions, you can ‘pin’ an audition by clicking the Pin icon on the right-hand side of the result. You can view all of your Favorites or Pins on your Dashboard or Favorites/Compare page

NOTE: Favoriting and Pinning requires a premium subscription.

• Programs: Name of the Company, Name of the Program, Styles, Location, Name of the Session(s), Ages, Dates, Tuition, Duration,
• Auditions: Name of the company, Name of the program, Audition Style, Audition time, date, and location (if applicable), description.
• Jobs: Name of the company, Name of position, Style, State, Level, Pointe or Flat, Duration, Salary, Competitiveness (nationally recognized)
• Organizations: Name of the company, Address, Description

• Programs: Company Affiliated, Housing Options, Offers Men’s Program (no icon), Offers Scholarships, Offers Needs-Based Financial Aid, Offers Adult Program, Offers Performance Opportunity (no icon)
• Auditions: N/A
• Organizations: Competitiveness, Pointe/Flat/Both, Unionized
• Organizations: N/A

• Full access to our database
• Full access to search filters
• Save and pin favorites
• Compare programs using our Favorite/Compare page
• Full Dancer Profile access
• Full Dashboard Access

For a more detailed explanation of premium benefits, please view our Subscription Benefits page!

• $10/month recurring ($120/year)
• $25/3 months switching to $10 after ($115/year)
• $80/year recurring

Create an account and visit our Subscriptions page to select a plan!

Visit Account Settings → Subscription Status → Cancel Subscription.

Your subscription renews automatically; however, if you would like to upgrade to a different plan, please contact us.

We take your security and privacy very seriously. We do NOT store any payment-related information; all payment processing is handled securely by Square.

The Dancer Profile is our newest feature designed for easy audition submission. Store all your dance materials in a single location and send a single quick link instead of compiling materials every email!

The Dancer Profile is currently a premium feature. Essential features that aid in searches are open for all users.

Click the Lock icon to open the sharing settings dialog, and then click 'Unlock Profile' on the bottom-right. Copy your link and send it to whomever you like. Generating a new link will make your previous link invalid. We recommend doing this after each audition season. You can revoke access to an unlocked profile page by clicking the 'Lock Profile' button.

Only people with the most current link shared will have access to your profile. Generating a new link will make your previous link invalid.

Listing a program is free! Simply let us know about it and we will add it to the database.

Email us at contact@balletscout.info and a member of our team will be in contact shortly!

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If your organization is not currently listed on The Ballet Scout, following a verification process you can claim it and act as its main administrator.

Step 1 - Create your organization

• Navigate to your Dancer Profile or Account Settings.
• Either click ‘Edit Profile’ (Dancer Profile) or ‘Edit Settings’ (Account Settings) to enable editing, and then click ‘Update Organization’
• Under the text box, click ‘Don’t see your organization?’
• Fill out the form and click ‘Send for Approval’ when completed.
• Click ‘Save Changes’ to save your new organization.

If you don’t have an account, these steps can also be performed at account registration; upon activating your account and logging in for the first time, you will see the Opt-In and Identity Verifcation (IVF) forms.

Step 2 - Opting in and Identity Verification

• Navigate to your dashboard; the dashboard will now be updated asking you if you would like to opt in as a Teacher or Faculty member. Click ‘Opt In’
• You will now be required to fill out an Identity Verification Form (IVF). Fill it out

Pending review from our team, you will receive an email notification that you either have been successfully verified as the main administrator, or that your request has been denied.

If your organization is already listed on The Ballet Scout, claiming it is a simple process!

The organization does not have a main admin.

If your organization is already listed on the site but has not been claimed, claiming the organization will set the requester as the main admin.

• Navigate to your Dancer Profile or Account Settings.
• Either click ‘Edit Profile’ (Dancer Profile) or ‘Edit Settings’ (Account Settings) to enable editing, and then click ‘Update Organization’
• Enter your organization’s name in the text box and click it to select it.
• Click ‘Save Changes’ to save your new organization.
• Navigate to your dashboard; the dashboard will now be updated asking you if you would like to opt in as a Teacher or Faculty member. Click ‘Opt In’
• You will now be required to fill out an Identity Verification Form (IVF). Fill it out

Pending review from our team, you will receive an email notification that you either have been successfully verified as the main administrator, or that your request has been denied.

The organization already has a main admin.

If your organization has already been claimed, the current main admin will be able to approve or deny your request to join the organization.

• If you already have an account, navigate to your Dancer Profile or Account Settings and change your organization.
• Either click ‘Edit Profile’ (Dancer Profile) or ‘Edit Settings’ (Account Settings) to enable editing, and then click ‘Update Organization’
• Enter your organization’s name in the text box and click it to select it.
• Click ‘Save Changes’ to save your new organization.
• Navigate to your dashboard; the dashboard will now be updated asking you if you would like to opt in as a Teacher or Faculty member. Click ‘Opt In’
• Although you will be presented with the option to fill out an Identity Verification Form (IVF), since the organization already has a main admin they will be able to approve your request without filling one out.

During the verification process, we use the provided contact information (Name, Email, Phone Number, Organization Email, Director’s Phone #, etc…) in order to verify the user’s relationship with the organization. This personal information is only stored while the information is being verified, and following approval or denial the information is deleted.

After claiming your organization's page, you and any other Teachers or Faculty you add to the organization will be able to control the organization’s user-facing features on The Ballet Scout:

• Edit the organization’s photo, description, standout features, website link, and location.
• Create listings for Programs, Jobs, and Auditions
• Manage user access and privileges for other Teachers and Faculty.

Note - in order to edit your organization’s details, you must be an Admin or Main Admin for the organization.

• Navigate to your organization’s dashboard
• Click ‘Edit Details’ on the top-left card. You will be taken to the editor for your organization’s page, where you can view and edit your organization.
• Make your desired changes; when finished, press ‘save changes’ on the bottom right.
• To view how your organization page will look to site visitors, click ‘View Page’ on the top-right.

Claiming your organization will allow you to submit listings for viewing on The Ballet Scout’s various searches! Simply submit some basic information about each program, job, or audition, and our team will take care of the rest.

Note - in order to create submissions, you must be an Admin or Main Admin for the organization.

• Navigate to your dashboard
• Under ‘Organization’, click ‘Create New Listing’
• You will now be viewing your organization’s currently pending and completed listing submissions. Click ‘Create’ in the top-right.
• Click on the desired listing type and fill out the required information.
• When finished, click ‘Submit’. You will now be able to view your submission.

Following submission, our team is notified of the new submission and will adjust the information to match The Ballet Scout’s guidelines. You can view pending and completed submissions on the ‘Manage Listings’ page from your dashboard.

Once a Teacher or Faculty member is verified, they will become a moderator for your organization. There are three possible states for an approved Teacher/Faculty member:

• Moderator - Can submit listings on behalf of the organization.
• Admin - Moderator privileges; additionally, can edit organization's details, and approve or deny pending Teacher/Faculty’s requests to join the organization and become moderators.
• Main Admin - Admin privileges; additionally, can promote or demote moderators to Admin and remove moderators from the organization.

In order to approve a request, have the Teacher/Faculty member create a Ballet Scout account, and select ‘Teacher/Faculty’ for their role. After activating their account and logging in, opt in to being a TF for the School the site, and then fill out the IVF or simply approve them in the ‘Control TAs’ page on the right-hand side of the organizational dashboard.

If their pending request was successful, you will see an alert for (1) pending request to join the organization.

Note: you must be an administrator to approve or deny requests to join the organization, and the main administrator to promote or demote existing moderators to admin, as well as remove moderators and administrators from the organization.

• From the dashboard, navigate to ‘View all Teachers/Faculty’.
• If you are an administrator or the main administrator, you will see options on the right of each currently approved Teacher/Faculty to promote, demote, or remove them from the organization.
• Select your desired action (promotion, demotion, removal)
• Click ‘confirm’

We’re always working on new features and improving the site! But if there’s something specific you want to see, please contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Get creative with filtering! There are other factors that tie into finding programs other than the exact filter. For example, if you are looking for a partnering summer intensive, try setting the “max weeks” filter to “2 weeks”. This will show all the add-on intensives like partnering, choreography, company experiences, and more.